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Writing, business, family life, Milton Keynes - there's all sorts on here!
Breaking Up for the Summer – that ‘School’s Out’ Feeling
At my last major networking session this month, our fabulous host – Aruna Rao, of Busy Women Networking – brought back some long-dormant memories without even knowing it. Ten minutes before the scheduled end, she encouraged Ali Moore – drawing the raffle – to “hurry...
Life Skills for the Under 10s
A friend of mine mentioned to me a couple of weeks ago that when her children were young, a friend of the family – also a mother to little children – died suddenly in her sleep. That terribly tragic event, my friend said, made her realise the importance of teaching...
My Love Letter to Milton Keynes
In 2014, we migrated from our tiny cathedral city in North Yorkshire to the UK's most famous 20th century New Town - Milton Keynes. Before our move, plenty of people felt able to ‘prepare’ us for what we could expect in our new home. “Roundabouts”, “concrete cows”,...
Blogging: it’s Better than Biscuits
If you’d told me 20 years ago – even five years ago – that I’d be doing what I’ve done this week, I would never have believed you. On Wednesday morning, I went to an SJPoole networking session – not to learn from the visiting expert, but to be her. I delivered an...
The end of term seems so far away – until it isn’t
I realised today I have only two full weeks left of school days before the end of term. That means some serious planning – which probably should have been done a while back – now needs to take place. I’m discovering just how quickly time turns now both children are...
A week in the life of RLC Words
I was typing a little text to my Mum and sister the other day about what was on the agenda for the morning, and on reading it back, I had a sudden thought: I would never have imagined this as a typical day, 10 years ago, five years ago, or even when I started RLC...
Things I’ll miss about Reception Year
The time has flown by – as it always seems to do, now we are all in the cycle of the school year – and our littlest boy is almost at the end of his Reception year at school. Which made me realise that it’s not just the end for him; it’s the last Reception year we will...
Let’s stop being nasty about other women
Pre-read explanatory note: I'm not sure what I wanted to do with this post really, but here it is. I've written it and rewritten it a few times, and I'm still not sure it's right. I don't want it to come across all preachy and mansplainy, because I'm well aware that...
